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Preface Preface. It is notoriously evident, that, in the agitation of every important question which has occupied the attention of the City of Bristol during the last ten years, the Corporation and Citizens have been divided: which, it is

Chapter 1 Origins of the grant of the town of Bristol Bristol Town Duties. A collection of original and interesting documents. Origin of the Grant of the Town of Bristol. On consulting our early Historians we find, that for

Chapter 2 Origin of the town dues CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF THE TOWN DUES. We have already shown, in our former Chapter, that the Corporation, as Grantees under the Crown, have an unquestionable right to a certain Toll, called

Chapter 3 Murage, keyage and pavage Chapter III. ORIGIN OF THE TOWN DUES. In the first part of these Inquiries, the reader will observe, that it has been there stated, that on the 29th May, in the 17th year

Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858